Langlands v John Leng and Co, Ltd: HL 21 Jan 1916

In an action of damages for slander against a newspaper the innuendo of corrupt conduct in giving interested advice to a public authority by an architect, its official, disallowed, reversing judgment of the Second Division.

Viscount Haldane, Lord Kinnear, Lord Shaw, Lord Parmoor, and Lord Wrenbury
[1916] UKHL 212, 53 SLR 212
Bailii
Scotland

Defamation

Updated: 14 January 2022; Ref: scu.630669